Sunday marks one week since a fire ripped through an assisted living facility in Fall River, killing ten residents.

Gov. Maura Healey on Friday announced a series of new measures aimed at improving safety in assisted living facilities in the wake of a fire at Gabriel House in Fall River that killed at least nine people on Sunday.

It’s very important in a crisis that people stay in contact,” Mayor Paul Coogan said in a wide-ranging interview from his office Friday.

The Bristol County District Attorney’s Office said it erroneously reported 66-year-old Brenda Cropper dead due to a “miscommunication.” The post Fall River fire victim reported dead Thursday is still alive,

First responders rescued dozens of people from inside an assisted living facility where nine people were killed.

More than 75 percent of Gabriel House residents are enrolled in Medicaid, state officials have said, and it charges significantly less than a typical assisted living facility does for private-paying patients.

A blaze at a Massachusetts assisted-living home Sunday killed a musician, a secretary, a veteran Army sharpshooter and six other people. Some in her family say Gabriel House wasn’t